What Your Secret Love Of ‘Bad’ Movies REALLY Says About You

Believe it or not, it’s a good thing.

We all have our guilty pleasures.

One thing that you don't need to be ashamed about, however, is your love of 'bad movies.'

A new study, carried out at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, has found that individuals who enjoy watching ‘trashy films’ (i.e. the flicks that you would say are 'so bad, they’re good') are actually more intelligent.

If you're wondering what actually classifies as 'trash', they are defined here as being 'cheaply or poorly made films that feature embarrassing or disturbing content.'

According to The Huffington Post, participants were asked to list 20 words that they associated with the term ‘trash film,’ to explain how the movies make them feel and how often and in what context they watched them.

The results showed that, those who watched these movies and enjoyed them, did so ironically.

Film scholar, Keyvan Sarkhosh, explained that researchers ‘also asked for the general art, media and film genre preferences of our participants.’

This element of the study showed that, those who are fond of this type of cinema, “are interested in a broad spectrum of art and media across the traditional boundaries of high and popular culture.”

So, the moral of the story is that. if you’re all about the zombies and piranhas, you may actually just be a genius.